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This month’s big news is the release of Windows 10 version 20H2. It’s a minor update but it comes with some worthwhile improvements. Also in October, Microsoft released a new version of its Edge browser to the Stable Channel and Microsoft provides a workaround for the ‘Reset this PC’ bug in Windows 10 version 2004.

Called the “Microsoft Teams Public Preview”, this update policy allows you to “explore and test upcoming features”.

No Data Compromised but Bad Day for Teams Retention Alarm bells went off on Thursday, October 29 when administrators in several tenants noticed that retention policies created to process Teams chat messages were apparently applied to Exchange mailboxes. Microsoft subsequently issued incident EX225368 “Admins may see Microsoft Teams retention policies unexpectedly update to Exchange Online…

Because it’s the most wonderful time of the quarter, this edition of Short Takes looks more closely at Microsoft’s latest blockbuster quarterly earnings report, in which the firm posted a net income of $13.9 billion on revenues of $37.2 billion.

Microsoft is slowly starting to bring Fluent elements to its popular collaboration tool, Teams.

If there is one app in the Office 365 suite that keeps people coming back to the productivity tools it is not Teams, but Excel. The spreadsheet application is easy to use, highly flexible, and in many companies around the world, worksheets are a structural part of the operational workflow. Last year, when XLOOKUP was…

Time to Review How Sensitivity Labels Are Used In Scoping Sensitivity Labels, I discuss the evolution of sensitivity labels and the ability to scope a label so that it deals with files and messages, container management, or both. Given this new capability, I questioned if it is a good idea to have multi-purpose labels and…

In the latest preview version of Windows Package Manager, you can install Microsoft Store apps from the command line.

Microsoft Teams is now being used by 115 million daily active users.

Microsoft has reported its Q1 fiscal (Q3 calendar year) earnings today and the company posted healthy numbers across the board at the top. The company reported revenue of $37.2 billion with a net income of $13.9 billion – an increase of 30%. Microsoft returned $9.5 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and…

In this article, I explain the differences between Basic Mobility and Security and Microsoft Intune, both MDM services from Microsoft.

Announced back in May 2020, Team templates arrived in Microsoft 365 tenants over the last couple of weeks. Teams templates allow administrators to define the basic information architecture (IA) of a Microsoft team, including the channels and application tabs, along with relevant information in the template to help users understand each team’s purpose. The key…